Patents by Inventor Ben E

Ben E has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5177071
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions containing 6-membered heterocyclic rings are disclosed which are useful in the treatment of panic disorder or anxiety disorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Roger M. Freidinger, Ben E. Evans, Mark G. Bock
  • Patent number: 5175159
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula I are antagonists of oxytocin and are useful in the treatment of preterm labor and dysmenorrhea, and for stoppage of labor prepatory to Caesarean delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mark G. Bock, Ben E. Evans, Roger M. Freidinger
  • Patent number: 5166151
    Abstract: Aromatic 2-benzazepines with fused 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic rings which are antagonists of cholecystokinins and/or gastrin, and are useful in the treatment or prevention of CCK-related and/or gastrin-related disorders of the gastrointestinal, central nervous and appetite regulatory systems; compositions comprising these compounds; and methods of treatment of mammals or of increasing food intake of animals employing these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Roger M. Freidinger, Ben E. Evans, Mark G. Bock
  • Patent number: 5132611
    Abstract: A defective automobile gauge is repaired by placing a resistance across the back of the gauge. At least 95% of the automobile gauges which fail do so because the regular resistance shunt has opened. The regular resistance shunt is mounted upon a ceramic plate that is necessary for the structural support of the galvanometer of the gauge. Therefore, the ceramic plate with the defective resistance remains in place and additional resistance is attached in parallel with the defective resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Inventor: Ben E. Brewer, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5091387
    Abstract: Disclosed are spirocyclic compounds of the formula: ##STR1## The compounds of formula I are oxytocin antagonists useful in the treatment of preterm labor and dysmenorrhea, and for the stoppage of labor preporatory to Caesarian delivery. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds as well as methods for preparing the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Ben E. Evans, Douglas J. Pettibone, Roger M. Friedinger
  • Patent number: 5020714
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying variable pressure to selected areas of a bonding assembly jig to shape a face plate to conform to the contours of contoured heads and hold the face plate in place for welding comprises two inverted U-shaped support frames including two spaced apart elongated vertical support members each having a bottom end and a top end, an elongated horizontal top beam extending between and connecting the top ends of the vertical support members, a track extending between and adjustably fastened to the horizontal top beam, and at least one hydraulic press slidably suspended from the track and adapted to apply pressure to a bonding assembly jig. The support frames are provided with wheels and one of the support frames has vertical support members spaced at a distance less that of the other support frame. This arrangement allows the tracks of each frame to be positioned proximate to each other above a bonding assembly jig.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Larry N. Miles, Cecil A. Drinnen, David W. Hackler, Tom L. Bogart, Arnold D. Macklin, Ben E. Sharpsteen, Truett M. Hyles, Herschel M. Stephens
  • Patent number: 5004741
    Abstract: Methods of antagonizing gastrin and/or cholecystokinin (CCK) with benzodiazepine analogs are disclosed, as well as related pharmaceutical compositions, which are useful in treating disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, central nervous system, and of the appetite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1991
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Ben E. Evans, Mark G. Bock, Roger M. Freidinger
  • Patent number: 4879971
    Abstract: Controlled vertically swinging exit gates for milking parlor stalls having resilient control devices for lowering the gates in a smooth and controlled manner and to stop jerking downward or upward movement of the gate upon opening and closing, comprising two horizontally movable pulleys fastened to a draw-bar which actuates opposing cables to smoothly control operation of the gates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1989
    Inventors: August Vandenberg, Ben W. Vandenberg, Andrew W. Vanderberg, Ben E. Haws
  • Patent number: 4850553
    Abstract: An ejector arrangement for aircraft store racks that are carried by military type aircraft and the like for releasably attaching to the aircraft stores such as conventional or nuclear weapons, in which the ejector arrangement is duplicated in mirror image form at the usual fore and aft positions of the rack, with each ejector arrangement being in the form of an elongated housing with which the usual fore and aft sway braces are respectively integral, which ejector housing internally defines an elongate internal chamber in which are mounted an outer cylinder and inner cylinder that in the dormant relation of the ejector are in substantially telescoped coaxial relation with like ends of same disposed adjacent one end of the housing to which the rack ballistic gas is supplied, with the ejector cylinders at their other ends being exposed externally of the other end of the housing and keyed for sequential movement to their extended relations under the action of the ballistic gas involved, to thrust the store which
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Scot, Incorporated
    Inventors: Earl K. Takata, Ben E. Paul, John P. Nordhaus
  • Patent number: 4847248
    Abstract: Aromatic 1,4-benzodiazepines with fused 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic rings which are antagonists of cholecystokinins and/or gastrin, and are useful in the treatment or prevention of CCK-related and/or gastrin-related disorders of the gastrointestinal, central nervous and appetite regulatory systems; compositions comprising these compounds; and methods of treatment employing these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Roger M. Freidinger, Ben E. Evans, Mark G. Bock
  • Patent number: 4820834
    Abstract: Benzodiazepine analogs of the formula: ##STR1## are disclosed which are antagonists of gastrin and cholecystokinin (CCK).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Ben E. Evans, Roger M. Freidinger, Mark G. Bock
  • Patent number: 4812442
    Abstract: Enzyme tripeptides of the formula: ##STR1## and analogs thereof which inhibit renin and are useful for treating various forms of renin-associated hypertension, hyperaldosteronism and congestive heart failure; compositions containing these renin-inhibitory peptides, optionally with other antihypertensive agents; and methods of treating hypertension, hyperaldosteronism or congestive heart failure or of establishing renin as a causative factor in these problems employing the novel tripeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua S. Boger, Ben E. Evans, Mark G. Bock
  • Patent number: 4755508
    Abstract: Benzodiazepines of the formula: ##STR1## are disclosed which are antagonists of gastrin and cholecystokinin (CCK).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1988
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Mark G. Bock, Ben E. Evans, Roger M. Freidinger
  • Patent number: 4744255
    Abstract: A sampler for communicating with the interior of a vessel containing a liquid extracts a liquid sample of predetermined volume from the vessel and conveys the same to a point of collection. The sampler includes a body having a bore, the forward end of which is in communication with the interior of the vessel, along with front and rear plungers reciprocable within the bore under positive independent control. The plungers are movable away from and toward each other to establish and collapse a sample chamber therebetween. To obtain a liquid sample, the plungers are removed forwardly to project the front plunger out of the bore and place the sample chamber into communication with the vessel interior, whereupon the sample chamber is established for being filled with liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Inventor: Ben E. Jaeger
  • Patent number: 4735941
    Abstract: Aromatic 1,4-benxodiazepines with fused 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic rings which are antagonists of cholecystokinins and/or gastrin, and are useful in the treatment or prevention of CCK-related and/or gastrin-related disorders of the gastrointestinal, central nervous and appetite regulatory systems; compositions comprising these compounds; and methods of treatment employing these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1988
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Roger M. Freidinger, Mark G. Bock, Ben E. Evans
  • Patent number: 4715321
    Abstract: An improved milking parlor construction is provided for barns of limited floor space, comprising the combination of a modular unit which comprises a module which may be utilized in fabricating milking parlors of the type wherein a central pit area has juxtapositioned on either side a cattle stand wherein each of the modules is composed of at least two space-apart, hollow vertical upright members that may be supported in concrete or the like and from each of which a feed bowl and shroud may be hung. The feed bowl is provided with feed from a feed conveyor superpositioned over the hollow vertical upright member and in communication therewith. In order to accommodate limited floor space considerations, the module also includes at least a pair of vertically raisable gates attached to the vertical upright members. A mechanism is provided for raising and lowering at least pairs of gates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1987
    Inventors: August Vandenberg, Ben W. Vandenberg, Andrew W. Vandenberg, Ben E. Haws
  • Patent number: 4707918
    Abstract: There is disclosed a device for use in fruit harvesting, that is, for clipping the stems of citrus fruits. The device is organized for one-hand operation, that is, it can be held in one hand or attached to the wrist of one hand, the device having an operating member, that is, a trigger, to be operated by a finger of the user. The device is powered by a pneumatic cylinder which, through linkage, operates a cutting blade which moves relative to a stationary member. Devices are provided for attaching the tool to a person's wrist and a finger of the user with the trigger member or button positioned for easy manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Assignee: Agricultural Producers
    Inventors: Gerald D. Smith, Ben E. Werner
  • Patent number: 4684646
    Abstract: A method of antagonizing the function of cholecystokinins in a disease state in mammals, especially in humans, which comprises administering a pharmaceutically-effective amount of certain 2-acylaminomethyl-1,4-benzodiazepine derivatives or their salts, alone or with a pharmaceutical carrier, with or without an adjuvant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1987
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond S. L. Chang, Ben E. Evans
  • Patent number: 4668770
    Abstract: Renin inhibitory peptides of the formula ##STR1## and analogs thereof inhibit renin and are useful for treating various forms of renin-associated hypertension and hyperaldosteronism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua S. Boger, Daniel F. Veber, Ben E. Evans
  • Patent number: D294532
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Inventors: August Vandenberg, Ben W. Vandenberg, Andrew W. Vandenberg, Ben E. Haws